While my youngest daughter sat in the orthodontist's chair yesterday unhappily waiting to have braces installed on her upper teeth, I told Dr. Saito's assistant that when I was in middle school I wanted to have braces. I never got them, but it appeared that all my friends had them, and for some reason they seemed kind of cool. Tell me you did this too: took your chewing gum and lined it up on your teeth like it was a row of braces...
Okay. Well, I did.
The woman helping with my daughter's braces said she did something similar with those Jolly Rancher Sticks. Ha!
(Actually, I think I did that too---you could bend them into something like a retainer. Right?)
Anyway, my daughter has not been so desirous of wearing braces, but she was a trooper through the procedure.
She's in the same club as actress Dakota Fanning who had---and maybe still has--braces for the same reason.
We found
this clip of Dakota explaining it all to Regis and Kelly.
After the braces on my daughter's upper teeth, she was given lessons on how to handle the now tedious job of brushing her teeth with metal in the way.
They're gonna be annoying for a while...no doubt about it.
Maybe I was lucky to not have braces after all.
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